1896 - The Magdalo branch of the Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK),
the secret Philippine revolutionary aimed at liberating the country
from the yoke of Spanish colonial bondage, is established during a
meeting by the KKK Supreme Council; in the same meeting, Katipunan
Supreme President Andres Bonifacio y de Castro also explains the duties and responsibilities of the newly elected officers, including his future nemesis Emilio F. Aguinaldo who takes the position of Magdalo branch president; the jurisdiction of the Magdalo chapter will cover Cavite
el Viejo ( future Kawit ), Bacoor, Carmona , Dasmarinas, Imus and
Silang, and later the towns of Amadeo and Mendez that will transfer from
Magdiwang, the other KKK chapter with the bigger jurisdiction (covering
the province's capital, Cavite, San Roque, La Caridad, Noveleta, San
Francisco de Malabon (future Tanza), Naik, Maragondon, Ternate,
Magallanes, Bailen, Indang, Alfonso, Amadeo and Mendez, and later, the
three Batangas towns of Nasugbu, Looc and Tuy); the Magdalo faction will
in less than a year's time prove to be a curse to Supremo Bonifacio
because his attempt to unite this KKK chapter with its future rival
faction, the Magdiwang, will lead to a virtual coup of the former
against Bonifacio during the infamous, fraudulent or anomalous Tejeros Convention, with Aguinaldo's camp grabbing power, ordering that the Supremo be seized dead or alive, and subjecting him to kangaroo court martial (with his lawyer Placido Martinez condemning instead of defending him) and subsequent assassination-cum-execution.
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